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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: Ali Babekir Gabriel <officecontact@voila.fr>
Reply-To: Ali Babekir Gabriel <ali.gabriel@netcourrier.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 10:19:22 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Your Letter:


 Read Carefully:

Please, my sincere apology if this communication don't meet your personal ethics, I have to contact you via this medium because I desperately need to get in touch with someone as you. I anticipated that this correspondence might come as a surprise to you because we don't know each others but since it is widely said that the connection between a man and his millions is another man, I am here with a proposition that is ordained to connect us to our destiny.

someone I presumed to be your relative because of the similarities in your last names who was an investor with our bank but died in a plane crash years back has just come to the limelight in our bank because since 2005 that he died his portfolio and investment worth 6.8 million Pounds has not been touched because no named next-of-kin was found in his bio-data form.

Interestingly, this investment has generated an accrued interest to the amount of 1.3 Million British Pounds because he was operating a domiciliary fixed deposit pounds account. The bank management has therefore authorized me as the director of investment banking of our Bank to locate any living relative of this investor so that the funds can be paid to the family of the late investor who was from your country in line with the banking ethics & policies as stipulated banking and finance laws otherwise the funds will be send to treasury as unclaimed.

I came to you because you share the same name with the investor, I will simply nominate & empowered you with all the relevant information(s) and documentations to enable you claim the money officially, legally and legitimately. Honestly, if I don't do this and inform the bank I cannot locate any relative of the investor the funds will be revert/re-circle into the bank treasury as unclaimed monies and people that know nothing about the source of the funds will spend it that is the irony of the banking industry which is purely aberrational.

Contact me immediately you received this email with your most direct telephone line using my private email address stated below so that I can call and/or furnish you with all the details. Remember however that we are sharing the money equally as I will make the atmosphere suitable and conducive for you to successful claim the money risk-free as beneficiary.

Best Regards
Ali Gabriel

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